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In the furore about Mena Suvari and the roses, it was easy to miss the understated yet incandescent screen presence of Thora Birch as Kevin Spacey's daughter. Now audiences are realising what insiders have known since she was six - that Thora Birch is Hollywood's brightest young star (just ask her mum).

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It's 50 years since the Festival of Britain opened its doors to a disbelieving and enchanted public. Lesley Gillilan conjures up the excitement of the time and speaks to seven people who'll never forget the first and greatest South Bank show.

There was a whole feeling of making it happen, and it was very difficult to make things happen at that time. It was a grey and damaged land and it was a challenge to buy simple things like screws. You would want to make cushions for something, but you couldn't find any textiles, so I'd spend my time going down to Petticoat Lane where you'd find some that had fallen off the back of a lorry. In a sense you would design for the materials you could get your hands on.

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I was looking for an alternative to stamp collecting, when my mother reminded me that we still had some old Festival of Britain postcards in the attic. I thought, there's a nice thing - surely nobody else collects Festival of Britain? And it went on from there.

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It's the biggest weekend of the year, when even the most reluctant gardener gets out the potting compost and puts down roots for the growing season. Here is Monty's step-by-step guide to laying good groundwork.

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